Day 1

Arrival to Baku

Meeting at the airport
Transfer to the hotel
15:00 Standard Check-in time

Day 2

Baku + Old City

08:00 – 09:00. Breakfast in hotel

09:30 – 11:30. Baku Sightseeing tour

Highland Park

Panoramic view of Baku Bay from the highest point of the city.

Flame Towers

Seaside Park (Baku Boulevard)

“The Boulevard” is a promenade that runs parallel to Baku’s seafront. This area – popular for strolling and taking in views of the Caspian – was recently named a national park. Its history goes back more than 100 years, to a time when oil barons built their mansions along the Caspian shore and when the seafront was artificially built up inch by inch.

White City

For a long time, this oil and industrial district of Baku was under the name of “Black City”. Nowadays a huge project is carried out with the aim to restore and develop the eastern part of the capital city (Black City), which covers an area of 221 hectares, in order to attract investments. The general plan of Baku White City envisages the creation of 10 universal urban areas.

Heydar Aliyev Center (outside)

The center of Heydar Aliyev is a cultural center built on Heydar Aliyev Avenue in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Center is a complex structure, which includes an auditorium (congress center), a museum, exhibition halls, and administrative offices. It is named after the third president of Azerbaijan Republic – Heydar Aliyev. The project of the center was developed in 2007 by the architect Zaha Hadid. The cultural center of Heydar Aliyev is considered as one of the symbols of modern Baku.

In 2014 it was recognized as the best building in the world – the 2014 Design of the Year award.

11:30 – 14:00. Walking tour in Old City

Shirvanshahs` Palace

Palace of the Shirvanshahs is the biggest monument of the Shirvan-Absheron branch of the Azerbaijan architecture, situated in the Inner City of Baku. The complex contains the main building of the palace, Divanhane, the shah’s mosque with a minaret, Seyid Yahya Bakuvi’s mausoleum, a portal in the east – Murad’s gate, a reservoir and the remnants of the bath-house

Maiden Tower

The Maiden Tower is known locally as Giz Galasi, located in the Old City, Baku, in Azerbaijan, was built in the 12th century as part of the walled city. Together with the Shirvanshahs’ Palace, dated to the 15th century, it forms an ensemble of historic monuments inscribed in 2001 under the UNESCO World Heritage List of Historical Monuments as cultural property, Category III.

Juma Mosque

Located in the historic Icheri Sheher, the mosque has been rebuilt several times. The present Friday Mosque was built in 1899 under the financing of Baku merchant Haji Shikhlali Dadashov. There are traces of a Zoroastrian temple at the site. A minaret, constructed in 1437, adjoins Friday Mosque.

Double Gates, Bazar Square, Caravan Saray and etc.

13:30 – 14:30. Dinner (for extra payment)

Day 3

Apsheron peninsula

08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast in the hotel

09:30- 13:30. Excursions around Apsheron (Ateshgyah, Gala Complex, Yanardag)

The temple of eternal fire Ateshgyah is the real Azerbaijani exotica. It is known practically all over the world. It is located 30 km from the center of Baku, on the outskirts of the village of Surakhani. This area is known for such a unique natural phenomenon as burning natural gas exits (gas, bursting out, touching oxygen and lighting up). In the modern form, the church was built in the XVII-XVIII centuries.

The territory of Gala Archeological and Ethnographic Museum Complex covers 156 hectares and dated to the period from III millennium BC. before the 20th century, burial mounds, crypts, houses, 4 water storage facilities, ruins of an ancient castle, 5 mosques, 3 baths and so on. To preserve these monuments, as well as further enrich the reserve due to the archaeological finds discovered on Absheron in 2008, the first archaeological and ethnographic complex under the open sky was created here with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation. The museum complex occupies 2 hectares of territory.

Yanardag is one of the most amazing natural attractions of the Apsheron Peninsula. It is a mountainside covered in flames, which can not be extinguished by rain or covered with sand, which has been burning for several millennia.

14:00 – 15:00. Dinner (for extra payment)

Free time

Day 4

Qobustan reserve

09:30 - 14:00 Excursion to Gobustan

Excursion around the museum (closed exposition) and the reserve (open part)

Museum of Petroglyphs (Museum under the open sky)

The museum of petroglyphs is the name of Gobustan - a mountainous place in the southeast of the Greater Caucasus Range, located 65 km from Baku. It was here that ancient sites of primitive people were found, leaving behind them a lot of rock paintings - petroglyphs. These primitive monuments of art reflect the culture, economy, worldview, customs, and traditions of ancient people. Once the sea splashed right at the foot of these mountains, but then it retreated, leaving characteristic relief marks on the polished boulder rocks. After accidentally, in the 30-ies of the XX century, unusual drawings on rocks were discovered, more than 6 thousand (on 1000 rocks) were "discovered". Also, ancient primitive dwellings - caves and parking lots, more than 100 thousand items of material culture were found. Gobustan petroglyphs belong to different epochs. They are made in the period from X - XVIII thousand BC. until the Middle Ages of our era.

* Depending on the weather conditions, it is possible to visit mud volcanoes (for an additional fee)

13:00 – 14:00. Dinner (for extra payment)

Free time

Day 5

Farewell to Baku

Breakfast in hotel
Check-out before (12:00 standard time)
Transfer to the airport